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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786405
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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2024
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564083
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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518209
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Cash, conditions and child development: Experimental evidence from a cash transfer in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - 2018
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD. We show differential impacts by type of transfer:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141956
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La calidad de los jardines de cuidado infantil y el desarrollo infantil
Araujo, Maria Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786406
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Cost-effective public daycare in a low-income economy benefits children and mothers
Hojman, Andrés; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
younger than four years of age in poor urban areas in Nicaragua. We explore the effects of this program on several measures of … suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141995
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Centros infantiles públicos y costo-efectivos benefician a niños y madres en un país de bajos ingresos
Hojman, Andrés; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
younger than four years of age in poor urban areas in Nicaragua. We explore the effects of this program on several measures of … suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534419
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Socioeconomic gaps in child development: Evidence from a national health and nutrition survey in Bolivia
Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian; Vidal Fuertes, Cecilia - 2018
sample of children 0-59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141954
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Local Electoral Rewards from Centralized Social Programs: Are Mayors Getting the Credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314178
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Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions towards Redistributive Schemes
Machado, Fabiana - 2012
While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies do and do not promote equality, much less is known regarding why these policies are adopted to varying degrees of intensity in different times and places. To explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328044